The Stealers of Light: A Legend
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Overview:
- Title: The Stealers of Light: A Legend
- Author: Marie, Queen of Roumania
- Year: 1916
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
- Price: 6/-
- Pages: 190
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: The Stealers of Light: A Legend
- Notes:
- 1st ed.; perhaps a Christmas gift book, but a break with the annual series from Dulac and Hodder & Stoughton, having only 2 of the "mounted illustrations" by Dulac
- Publ date (inferred) and price from publisher advertisement The Scotsman 1916-11-23 p2 and The Observer 11-26 p4; this one of two as "By Her Majesty the Queen of Rumania"
- HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original cover -- front cover barely decorated, states "by the Queen of Roumania" -- title page shows subtitle over "by Marie, Queen of Roumania" -- "Dedicated to my Husband" (Ferdinand I (1865–1927), King of Romania from 1914 to 1927 --Wikipedia) -- illustrations (only 2): color plates with guard sheets, frontispiece and facing p23, two leaves not included in the pagination -- novel spans p1-190; p190 footer "Printed in Great Britain by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh."
- Probably there is a dustjacket with illustration that matches one of the interior plates by Edmund Dulac. Compare the 1915 Dreamer of Dreams, same publisher and illustrator, whose book cover design is similar to this one (see).